UPR Info

Canada voluntarily commits to strengthening intergovernmental collaboration and public dialogue on human rights, through the development of a protocol for following up on the recommendations Canada receives from international human rights bodies and a stakeholder engagement strategy

To initiate a transparent process for ongoing consideration by federal, provincial and territorial governments of adherence to human rights treaties that Canada is not yet a party to

To continue to take legislative and other steps to progressively realize the right to adequate housing as part of an adequate standard of living for its citizens

To co-developing distinctions-based Indigenous housing strategies with First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners to ensure that future housing reform is reflective of their specific needs

To improve the promotion and public awareness of international human rights in Canada

To end, by March 2021, all long-term drinking water advisories affecting public systems on reserve

To continuing to improve services delivered to Indigenous Peoples — such as education, clean water, housing, and health services. We aim to achieve this through: the full implementation of Jordan’s Principle to ensure that First Nations children receive the same health and social services and supports as other Canadian children; the full implementation of all the orders of the Canadian Human Rights and the co-development transformation of the delivery of Indigenous child welfare.

Canada also commits to holding future federal-provincial-territorial human rights ministerial meetings.

To conduct human rights analyses to support the implementation of our international human rights obligations

Canada also commits to enhancing our federal-provincial-territorial collaboration on human rights implementation through the creation of a senior intergovernmental mechanism

Following the universal periodic review process, several measures were currently being taken towards further promoting children's rights through several preliminary means. A draft bill on the establishment of a new youth court had been prepared and was currently under review, and additional issues, such as necessary adaptations to probation officers' reports, were being evaluated

Further addressing the remaining gaps between the various populations in Israeli society

Switzerland is considering the possibility of establishing a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles.

Redoubling efforts to increase women's representation in society

In fulfilling its treaty obligations, Liechtenstein will continue to pay particular attention to the situation of foreigners, taking into account the exceptionally high proportion of non-Liechtenstein nationals among the resident population and the workforce

To examine the possibility of withdrawing or modifying the reservations entered by the Government regarding articles 14 (2) and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

To organize an annual meeting with civil society representatives in the field of human rights to prepare main international events

To publish regularly, on the site of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the concluding observations of the treaty bodies

To examine the possibility of modifying the declarations made by the French Government on articles 13 and 14 (5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

To favour actively the rapid completion of negotiations on an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights so that all the rights recognized by the Covenant may be included in individual communications

To strengthen the ongoing dialogue between the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, the Overseas Territories and Territorial Units and the Ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Co-Development, on the consideration, on a case-by-case basis, of returns of persons to their country which could place those persons "at risk", in conformity with France's obligations in this regard, in particular in the framework of requests for interim measures from the treaty bodies

Granting the right to those who object to serve in the army on conscientious grounds to serve instead with a civilian body independent of the military, such as in the form of the newly established and strengthened Public Commission for National Civil Service

Finland is committed to making the UPR recommendations an integral part of the Government's comprehensive human rights policy report to be submitted to Parliament in Spring 2009. The proactive targets to be set in the report will also address these recommendations

To inform CNCDH, as often as possible in advance, of the preparation of draft laws where the Commission could usefully play its role of providing advice on all matters relating to its area of competence

Submit to Parliament for ratification at the earliest opportunity the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and to transpose in 2008 the provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

To associate the CNCDH in the follow-up to the recommendations made by the treaty bodies, in addition to its ongoing cooperation with regard to the preparation of periodic reports for the human rights treaty bodies

To boost the financial support that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives to French non-governmental organizations that promote human rights throughout the world, in particular through a "call for human rights projects".

To consider without delay the possibility of establishing an interministerial mechanism to hold regular meetings on the preparation of reports on the human rights situation in France for submission to international bodies, and to examine, in conjunction with the Advisory Commission, modalities for follow-up on recommendations made by those bodies and by the competent national institutions, including the Commission

To consider the establishment without delay of an inter-ministerial mechanism that would meet regularly, notably in view to examine, in cooperation with the CNCDH, the follow-up to the recommendations made by human rights treaty bodies and competent national institutions

To seize the CNCDH as often as possible in the context of law-making so that it efficiently assumes its advisory role